Scanning the sky

UW astronomer Andrew Connolly is helping transform our knowledge of the universe with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope — the largest digital camera in the world that aims to answer some of the most fundamental questions in astrophysics.

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Astronomy

Researchers find irregularities in ‘rare, exotic’ binary system

UW astronomer Breanna Binder and two of her students reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that a puzzling stellar phenomenon may not be what other astronomers had reported.

Computer security tools for journalists lacking in a post-Snowden world

A place to call home for UW Native American community

An unusual structure has emerged among the collegiate gothic buildings and modern dormitories of central campus. A longhouse-style structure finally brings into view a community that at times over the last century has been invisible.